Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professor in Australia, seem a bit beside the point. Did, as Freeman argues, Mead misread her celebrated Samoans? Were they as marvelously gentle as she thought them to be? Mead's conclusion, or wish, may have been less a matter of scholarship or research than of character. More evangelist than scientist, she appeared to believe that the ultimate purpose of anthropology is to increase a sense of life's possibilities...
Once a reporter asked the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson to describe the man she envisioned as the perfect husband. Her ideal, she said, would be over six feet tall. He would be a handsome man, a preacher, and he would be able to play the trombone...
...should be planned with zealous attention to detail and supervised with no tolerance for mistakes. This year some 7,000 executives from such firms as IBM, Borg-Warner and PPG Industries will travel to Winter Park, Fla., to hear that message from Philip B. Crosby, 57, perhaps the leading evangelist of quality in the U.S. and author of Quality Is Free. Cost of a five-day seminar: $1,650. Crosby tells the executives that if they follow his strict rules and manufacture a product right the first time, their companies could increase profits substantially...
...better get to know him.'" If memory is not too dim, Old Joe then said he had looked Graham up after the rally and suggested the reverend get together with his Senator son. Dutiful son that he was, J.F.K. did make it a point to cultivate the evangelist. Billy Graham and his like seem to have been edging nearer to the Oval Office ever since. Power attracts power...
...then there's the pies of born-again stars (As if once wasn't enough). Just when the scars Of their first debut were beginning to heal They're back at out throats with evangelist zeal. Enough is enough: I'm beginning to cry From all of the dreck that's assaulting my eye. Oh. Doctor, this magazine sure needs a cure. But only a blow-torch could render it pure. I'd throw it out, in the compactor yet. But they're going to publish a bound volume set. Oh, they're stronger than me. They'll print volume...